OVERVIEW

The Climate and Health Champion Awards recognize local youth, individuals, businesses, organizations, and researchers that are taking steps toward implementing sustainable solutions, ecofriendly practices, or policies aimed at improving health and/or improving health equity (through elimination of economic or social barriers to health) that are at risk of climate-sensitive hazards.

Climate-sensitive hazards are exposures such as poor air quality, heat, flooding, drought, wildfires, dust storms, vector-borne disease, etc. that put people’s heath at risk and are influenced by local- to global-scale climate change.

ELIGIBILITY

May be community leaders; representatives; or volunteers, including but not limited to, health professionals (physicians, nurses); educators; journalists; or community organizers

A Business Nominee:

Must operate in Maricopa County

Must be from the private sector

An Organization Nominee:

Must operate in Maricopa County

May be a school, nonprofit, public organization, or governmental organization

A Research Nominee:

Must live and/or conduct work in Maricopa County

May be a research professional; an individual contributing to or contributed to a research project (Principal Investigator, research team, research workgroup); health professionals with a research focus (physicians, nurses, etc.); nonprofit or governmental organizations working on a research project

EXAMPLES OF ELIGIBLE PROJECTS

Projects eligible for nomination under this recognition program include a wide variety of activity types, such as adopting a specific policy within an organization; advocating for a policy to be adopted more broadly outside of a specific organization; or implementing a tangible solution within a community or environment that are aimed at improving the health of our community and are linked to climate-sensitive hazards. We encourage consideration of risks that affect one group of people more than another. Please see the handout Activities Benefitting Climate and Public Health for specific project examples. Eligible projects are not limited to these examples - any project benefitting both climate and public health will be considered.

JUDGING CRITERIA

Applications are evaluated based on the following criteria:

Innovative Approach

Reproducibility

Impact

Health Equity

Collaboration

Engagement/Service of Vulnerable Populations

Length of Project Implementation

The nomination process for the 2019 Climate and Health Champion awards is now open. To view a list of 2018 nominees and read about the award winners, click here.

HOW TO APPLY

Complete a brief online Nomination Form and upload a Letter of Nomination (see criteria description at the end of the online form). For questions about the application process or to receive the form in an alternative format, please email climateandhealth@mail.maricopa.gov.